While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reasons. This is why the...
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
The weak are meat the strong do eat.
The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I.
The wisdom of skin is underappreciated.
The woman was sincere—bigots mostly are—but no less dangerous for that, and she shall be named and shamed.
This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.
Without where I am from and who I am from, I am nothing, even if the glass is gone and conifers are growing through where the roof should be. All those wide-worlders in transit, all those misplaced, t...
The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.
The world won’t leave things be. It’s always injecting endings into beginnings. Leaves tweezer themselves from these weeping willows. Leaves fall into the lake and dissolve into slime. Where’s the sen...
The world’s twenty-seven richest people own more wealth than the poorest five billion, and people accept that as normal.
Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair. I wanted to say that it's not America they're aping, it's the Japan of their p...
Then the three of us hug, and if I could choose on moment of my life to sit inside of for the rest of eternity...it'd be now, no question.
Then the true true is diff’rent to the seemin’ true? said I. Yay, an’ it usually is, I mem’ry Meronym sayin’, an’ that’s why true true is presher’n’rarer’n diamonds.
There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn park...
There is no God but the one we dream up.
There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!
Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire,
There's got to be a nasty or dangerous side to anything enjoyable or there's something wrong, something suspicious and hidden. If everything seems perfect, it means you're one of the Eloi and a Morloc...
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